Alicia S. Hammond is a Senior Digital Specialist and the Digital Inclusion Lead at the Digital and AI Vice Presidency, World Bank Group. She manages the $10M Digital Empowerment and Equity Program under the Digital Futures Partnership and oversees the implementation of the D300 corporate target, which aims to support 300M women to access and use broadband internet by 2030. For the last ten years, she has worked directly with operations to design and implement gender equality and digital inclusion interventions.
Prior to joining the Digital and AI Vice Presidency, Alicia served as the Lead on Technology and Innovation with the Gender Group. During this time, she contributed to the preparation and design of operations with a focus on promoting inclusive digital infrastructure, digital skills programs, as well as digital innovation and entrepreneurship around the world. She has also developed research on advancing the participation of women in technology and other infrastructure sectors, including: The Equality Equation: Advancing the Participation of Women and Girls in STEM; Stepping Up Women’s STEM Careers in Infrastructure: An Overview of Promising Approaches; and Women wavemakers: practical strategies for recruiting and retaining women in coding bootcamps.
Prior to joining the World Bank in 2013, Alicia worked at the Women and Public Policy Program, a research institute based at the Harvard Kennedy School. She has also worked with UNICEF, UN Foundation, UN Women, and the Planning Institute of Jamaica in her home country (an agency of the Office of the Prime Minister).
She holds a Master’s degree in Development Economics from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and French from Mount Holyoke College.